role

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Noun

1. A character or part played by a performer or actor.
   • My neighbor was the lead role in last year's village play.
   • Her dream was to get a role in a Hollywood movie, no matter how small.
2. The expected behaviour of an individual in a society.
   • The role of women has changed significantly in the last century.
3. The function or position of something.
   • Local volunteers played an important role in cleaning the beach after the oil spill.
   • What role does the wax in your earhole fulfill?
4. Designation that denotes an associated set of responsibilities, knowledge, skills, or privileges
   • The project manager role is responsible for ensuring that everyone on the team knows and executes his or her assigned tasks.
5. The function of a word in a phrase.
6. In the Raku programming language, a code element akin to an interface, used for composition of classes without adding to their inheritance chain.

Noun

1. An ancient unit of quantity, 72 sheets of parchment.

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